Easy way to prevent diabetes?

[mattbell]

There are already implantable glucose monitors.  Why not create one that causes harmless pain if blood glucose rises beyond a certain level, with the amount of pain increasing commensurate with the level?  People modify their behaviors quickly to avoid pain if there's a clear and rapid connection between the pain and a pain-causing stimulus.

Devices that intentionally cause pain might be difficult to get FDA-approved, but it seems like techniques like gastric bypass essentially accomplish the same thing, with far more side effects an irreversible changes. 

I feel like I have a natural version of this glucose-pain connection; when I eat many kinds of junk food, I start to feel sick within minutes.  It's trained me to not eat junk food, even if it once tasted good at the time of eating.

Comments

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Go the other way. Develop a monitor that releases dopamine or another happy-goo when the person eats almost no processed sugar. The more disgusting the vegetable the bigger the short shot.

Asparagus? Brocolli? Any steamed green shyte? Mainline heroin. That's the only way to condition against the Evil.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Haha. I think a simpler trick would just be to tech people to stir-fry their veggies in walnut oil or some other healthy oil. :-)

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Healthy oils can do nothing to stop the Horrible Taste of Evil, that which Invokes the Gag. Those who fail to recognize that The Evil Exists, who insist "Oh, c'mon, they're delicious!" are working for The Devil -- the Dark Lord of the (stir) Flies -- in Spreading His Vile Lies.

Calling putrescent substances by cutesy names (like the hateful moniker "veggies") is insufficient in overcoming our body's natural rejection based on taste. This will take hard drugs. ;-)

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

You must not be stir-frying them right. Or perhaps your taste buds are genetically different from mine, in which case carry on with the heroin-injected vegetables. :-)

[sacra-imbri.livejournal.com]

Actually, rather a good idea from the marketing standpoint, though difficult on implementation...